Early Cardinals minor league working rosters

Brian Walton

03/17/2012

How St. Louis Cardinals minor leaguers were organized in workouts early in spring training camp in Jupiter, Florida.

When St. Louis Cardinals minor leaguers reported to spring training camp 10 days ago, players were organized into working groups. Since then, games have begun and personnel have been shifted from the rosters listed below.

Still, the working rosters are shared for your interest. Again, they are already out of date. For example, five pitchers and two infielders – the most recent group cut from major league camp – joined minor league camp after these rosters were published. (They are noted as "Down" in the table.)

Cardinals farm director John Vuch hammered home the lack of significance of these rosters.

"Our rosters are constantly in flux and we don't want the players or others to read much into them," Vuch said. "Their only purpose at this stage is to ensure we have enough guys on each club for fundamentals.

"Invariably, people look at a roster and see one guy at Palm Beach and another at Quad Cities and assume that means something. That is one of the reasons we don't go out of our way to publicize rosters.

"No matter how often we tell people they don't mean anything, they try to make more out of them than what's there. As we told our players, if we already knew who was going where, we'd just bring in about 110 guys, play games and send them north," Vuch concluded.

St. Louis Cardinals working minor league spring training rosters

Group 1A

Group 1B

Group 2A

Group 2B

Rehab

P

Additon

Benes

Cole

Baker

Canache

Bibona

Blair

Cornelius

Bileckyj

Costantino

Billbrough

Blazek

Creath

Castillo, Y

Delgado

Broderick

Butler

Gillung

Fornataro

Kopp

Browning

Calhoun

Hunt

Hiraldo

Lucas

Copeland

Castillo, Ri

Jacob

Hooker

McGregor

Corrigan

Daugherty

Jenkins

Lopez

Santana

Edwards

De Leon

Lucas

Martinez, C

Swagerty

Greenwood

Ferrara

Martinez, R

Melling

Whiting

Hald

Gast

McInnis

Mijares

Maness

Gaviglio

Miller, T

Mills

Delayed

Parise

Gorgen

Miranda

Nadeau

Almarante

Rauschenberger

Hernandez

Nazario

Nuernberg

Reifer

Kiekhefer

Revesz

Pasen

Rondon

Lyons

Stock

Paulino

Russell

Reid

Ulacio

Sherriff

Todd

Schneider

Villanueva

Springer

Watson, B

Simpson

Watson, S

Wright

Thomas

Wyatt

Down

Dickson

Cleto

Siegrist

Kelly

Miller, S

C

De La Cruz, L

Castillo, J

Keener

Byrd

Derba

Espinoza

Rasmus

Ehrlich

Klein

Tartamella

Perez, L

Lewis

Perez, A

Teran

Velazco

Montero

Stanley

1B

Scruggs

Rodriguez, J

Cerreto

De La Cruz, R

Ruiz

Washington

IF

Curtis

Gil

Albitz

Peoples-Walls

Elkins

Mateo

Bergman

Pritchard

Garcia, G

Obregon

Patton

Tuivailala

Garcia, J

Vasquez

Steinstra

Rahmatulla

Rodriguez, S

Walsh

Valera, C

Valera, B

Wong

Wittels

Williams, M

Down

Kozma

Cox

OF

Ahmady

Edmondson

Apelian

Bergin

Marti

Longmire

Hill, V

Bryant

Conley

Melker

Martini

Garcia, A

Luna

O'Neill

Medina

Jeffries

Pham

Reyes, R

Ramos

McElroy

Swauger

Rosario

Williams, R

Tilson

Taveras

Swinson

At least one of the rehab pitchers has already seen game action. I will provide details on the sidelined players this coming week.

These rosters will be updated later in camp.

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